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A Burning of Stories, Part I
Good afternoon, everyone. My apologies for being so long away from this blog, but I have the best excuse ever. Our house burned down. Yes, that house. Cedar House. The one from which so much of this blog has sprung. … Continue reading
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Tagged burning, Cedar House, Fire Island Pines, HMS Queen Elizabeth II, housefire, hydrangeas, memories, mermaid, peasant skirt, stuffed animals, tea dance, teddy bears
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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles
[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading
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Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Ancestry.com, Civilian Warfare, David Haney, Dean Savard, family trees, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, gone too soon, Mark Simpson, Michael Bishop, Profiles in Grace, Ruffin Cooper, Tim Dlugos
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TBT/GTS#3: Peter Frazer, MD – A Life Redeemed
December 1, 2016 – I didn’t really plan to post this on World AIDS Day. It just turned out that way, but I can’t think of a more appropriate time for this story or a more appropriate tale for this … Continue reading
TBT/GTS#2: George “Bud” Falkenberry, Born to Act
Of all these profiles I expect to write – and as you will come to see, there are far too many – this one is the one I want most to get right because, even after more than 30 years … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, actors, AIDS, AIDS quilt, Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, Falkenberry, gone too soon, HIV, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Selma, Upper West Side
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TBT:GTS#1: Randall Robbins, Actor, Teacher, Leader, Friend
INTRODUCTION My over-arching challenge here is to write this post – the first in an occasional series – in such a way that it will keep you smiling even if it may, at first, give you pause. But, I know … Continue reading
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Tagged "Annie", "Company", acting, actors, AIDS, Carolyn Kirsch, Death, Equity, Equity Library Theatre, HIV, Randall Robbins, Sanford FL, Seminole High School, Theatre, Uta Hagen
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Diamonds in the Rough: Third Annual Posting
“We have nothing, if not belief.” – Sir Reepicheep, Chief Mouse of Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis) “Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.” – John McCarthy, A.I. trailblazer [1] We are the uncut diamonds … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, cells, Death, diamonds, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, particle physics, physics, prayer, quitting, quitting smoking, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Angels, belief, diamonds, evolution, guardian angels, soul, strong atomic force, weak atomic force
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The Flow of God: Third Annual Posting
“Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God…” – Revelation 22:1 This post is surely my most presumptuous, but perhaps the most important. It is perfectly possible … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, Higgs Boson, Higgs Field, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, particle physics, physics, poetry, prayer, quantum theory, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, Goodness, Hope, Life, Light, love, Truth
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OUR COMMON HOME: What the Pope Said
I’m astonished by the Pope on so many levels. There is his proactive humility, his profound simplicity, his confident spirituality, and all served up to our little lost world in his mind-bogglingly perfect pitch. As both a lifelong friend of … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, biology, Death, faith, God the Father, health, Holy Spirit, Living Water, Love, miracles, physics, poetry, Pope Francis, prayer, quantum theory, Rebirth, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged Air, Carbon, Common Home, Earth Sciences, Encyclical, Environment, Filth, Global Warming, Laudato Sii, love, Pollution, Social Sciences, the Poor, Water
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Remembering Mama, and Margaret Sandlin’s Cherry Dessert
The first day of September is rich with meaning for so many people in so many ways. For students of every age, from Pre-K (something that hadn’t even been invented in my day) right on through doctoral studies, it marks … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, belief, cooking, Death, desserts, faith, fruit glaze, Holy Spirit, Love, prayer, recipes, religion, Uncategorized
Tagged cherries, Cherry dessert, cherry pie filling, Decatur, Decatur Daily, Huntsville, Newcomers Club, refrigerated desserts, rich desserts, sinful desserts
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A Boy’s Tale, Complete Part I, “The Wedding”
About A Boy’s Tale To my mind, one of history’s – especially Christian history’s – most under-appreciated personalities is Mark the Evangelist. Oh, we’ve heard of him well enough, but only as the author of the Gospel bearing his name. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Andrew, Apostle Peter, Apostles, Baptism of Christ, Cana, Christ, First Century Jerusalem, First Century Palestine, Herod Antipas, James Zebedee, Jesus, John Mark, John the Baptist, John Zebedee, Jordan River, Mark the Evangelist, Mary the mother of Jesus, wedding at Cana, Wine into Water, Zebedee
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